Mobile consultant looks back at 2013, offers predictions for next year

0.phoneArenaposted on24 Dec 2013, 13:21

A new study, cited by the New York Times on Tuesday, shows that the average U.S. consumer consumed 1.2GB of mobile data a month this year. That is up sharply from the 690MB of data that was used in an average month last year. The data was compiled by Chetan Sharma, a consultant to the wireless industry. In a report looking back at 2013, and offering predictions for the new year, he shows a similar trend for world-wide consumption of data...

this would not happen even if tizen was miles better than Android (currently is the opposite). A big part of samsung's success comes from the fact that it is Androids best. the only way for tizen to work is if it is implemented gradually.

I predict that Google will start losing customers to iOS and WP because of all the freakin' ads you have to endure while using an Android device! Sure, I get that Google is at heart an advertising company and that's how they make their money. But its getting a little out of hand now. Every three or four videos you watch on Youtube are preceded and followed by an ad. Almost every free app or game on Android has ads at the start, or ads at the top and bottom. If Go SMS sends me one more promotion ad, I'm going back to the stock app!

I love Android, but Ad blockers are not working on 4.3 and it making my experience very frustrating. To the point that I'm really thinking about other alternatives. Google, please get your ads under control before this becomes a real issue for other users as well.

Google will always have the options/ features/ customization in their OS that people want. I dont see Apple changing these things much. Just look at the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5same. They did almost nothing to improve the OS; granted people still went crazy over buying the same phone they did last year. I just see Goolge as pushing inovation and exploring new fetures to make their phones better where as with Apple. Their main focus is always going to be how to make more money for less product.

True, but I (for some reason) updated my Note 2 to 4.3 and I haven't seen a root out there for it yet. Maybe I'll hunt around this weekend for one, but for those who know nothing of rooting...it might be a problem.

9It's is two things. Apple will continue to sell iPhones because there are people who want to look cool using apple devices. Also not everyone is interested in the almost pc like features of android.
Android or Google will also continue to increase their market share because people are getting educated about what android can do and what IOS can't through YouTube videos, Samsung ads and so on. If apple releases a huge screen phone android will suffer and I mean all android oems. But if Google also optimizes android to the point it works like IOS yet maintaning all the features then Apple will sink pass blackberry.

Who said that the iPhone would be going anywhere❔.. That's crazy talk.. Its just that with WP only 10% less global market share than iOS, and WP having close to 40 different current models of phones on the market, vs Apples 2, its a no brainer that WP will eventually surpassed the iPhone in global market share... I would say that WP is Necessarily going to take any customers away from Android, or iOS, just yet either.. WP will grow because of new smartphone users who aren't already locked into a specific ecosystem, and also grow as a result of the entire smartphone marketing growing itself.. Apple, and Google will no doubt grow as well, but during this growth positions will shift.. We're already seeing evidence of this take place in several markets around the world.

you can see in charts that wp is not taking any customers from android. it has always been the battle closed versus open ecosystem.. android will only lose to a superior open source linux based ecosystem sometime... but not now. i think apple will continue to be strong... but sooner or later one of the three will go down. oems haven't shown any sign of "leaving" android just yet.

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